Most are democratic socialists; just don’t know it

[wvit1001]

American government is “one that should belong to all the people; not just a handful of billionaires.”


Sanders, like Franklin D. Roosevelt before him, has come to understand that there can be no true “liberty” without “economic security.”
Referencing FDR’s 1937 Inaugural Address, Sanders observed:

Against the ferocious opposition of the ruling class of his day, people he called the “economic royalists,” Roosevelt implemented a series of programs that put millions of Americans back to work, took them out of dire poverty and restored their faith in government.  He redefined the relationship of the federal government to the people of our nation.  He combated cynicism, fear and despair.  He reinvigorated democracy.  He transformed our country, and that is exactly what we have to do today.

And, by the way, almost every thing he proposed, almost every program, every idea he introduced, was called “socialist.”

[Truman62]

It made America Great again.

Now Rubio wants to stop us from being Great again.

[stretch351c]

FDR's policies extended the Great Depression.

[stretch351c]

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-Depression-5409?RelNum=5409

[chuck_curtis]

I sure as hell ain't one of them.  There is nothing that serves us peons better than free market economics, which was destroyed with the creation of the Federal Reserve and it's control over the value of money.  Only a dumbarse cannot understand that.

[sweetwater5s9]

Sanders has come to understand that there can be no true “liberty” without “economic security.”

Then he should not be advocating socialism which has failed globally on a grand scale since the Russian Revolution and onward.   Repeating past mistakes is not what we want or need.

[wvit1001]

so you guys are for our government's continued support of the extremely wealthy over the rest of us?

[wvit1001]

European democratic socialism hasn't failed sweaty.

[stretch351c]

You idiots still see it as a zero sum game. It's not. If I make my boss more money, so do I. Bernie's economic plans have failed everytime they have been tried. Look at cities like Detroit.

[chuck_curtis]

so you guys are for our government's continued support of the extremely wealthy over the rest of us?

Like we have now?  That's what you support.  Free market capitalism doesn't exist.  You have only to blame the fascism you support.  We're living it.

[wvit1001]

you just use facism, socialism, communism interchangeably chuckles.   you don't seem to have any idea what you're talking about. 

[sweetwater5s9]

How ironic is it that the U.S. is embracing socialism at the very moment Europe and many other parts of the world are running away from it?

In the past five years, 33 countries, including 20 in socialist Europe, always held up as the example for a new American economic model by Democrats, have cut their personal income taxes, according to a study by KPMG, the giant accounting firm.

In the past four years, 60 countries have cut their corporate income tax rates.

Why have they done it?

Simple.

They want to compete more effectively for capital and human resources.

Basically, the world has been turned upside-down – with territories even under Communist control recognizing that low taxes is what drives burgeoning economies.

Meanwhile, the United States, the champion of low taxes and economic freedom, has gone the other direction. It is as if we haven’t noticed what the rest of the world has.

Notice you don’t hear America’s Democrats talking about Europe any more. They can’t. Europe has abandoned the failed economics of the Democrats. In fact, many European leaders are astonished at the direction of the U.S. Its leaders are openly chastising America for its foolhardy policies of bailouts and government intervention and encouragement of debt.

It would be laughable except for what it portends for America. It spells an inability to compete in the new global marketplace we keep hearing about.

Because socialism fails 100 percent of the time.

It is the definition of failure and economic misery.

Socialism has never succeeded – anywhere, anytime.

What more do you need to know?


Joseph Farah